US11502285B2 - Rechargeable electrochemical cell and battery - Google Patents
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- the present invention concerns a rechargeable electrochemical cell, in particular a lithium-ion electrochemical cell.
- lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) is used, which has a very high energy density, but which is also relatively expensive and which is not suitable for high charging or discharging rates.
- lithium nickel-manganese-cobalt oxides can be used, having a lower cost and giving the possibility, by changing the Ni—Mn—Co ratio, of adapting the properties to the requirements, so of having high energy density or a high allowable discharge rate.
- NMC has, with traditional negative electrode materials, a lower cycle life, meaning the number of charge-discharge cycles that the material may be subjected to, than LCO. Additionally, with increasing nickel content and correspondingly decreasing manganese and cobalt content, the cycle life of NMC materials further decreases. For commercial acceptability a cycle life performance of 80% capacity retention after 250 cycles is necessary.
- Silicon based negative electrodes are far superior to graphite based negative electrodes as far as energy density is concerned. Pure silicon has in theory a capacity which is circa 10 times the capacity of graphite. In real-life batteries this leads to an improvement of between 5% and 30% in final energy density of the batteries, although further improvements are still possible. Silicon based negative electrodes are still inferior as far as cycle life is concerned, and/or, in the case of a material known as SiOx, also as far as the first cycle efficiency is concerned, but are beginning to be used commercially.
- a problem with silicon based negative electrodes is the continuous formation of a SEI, a Solid-Electrolyte Interface on the negative electrode.
- a SEI is a complex reaction product of the electrolyte and lithium and can deposit on the negative electrode as a thick layer. It leads to a loss of lithium availability for electrochemical reactions and therefore to a poor cycling performance, which is the capacity loss per charging-discharging cycle.
- a thick SEI may further increase the electrical resistance of a battery and thereby limit the achievable charging and discharging rates. At every charging/discharging cycle the SEI partially breaks, exposing new active material, leading to the formation of fresh SEI.
- FIGURE is a schematic representation of an embodiment of the rechargeable electrochemical cell described herein.
- the invention concerns a rechargeable electrochemical cell comprising a negative electrode and a positive electrode, whereby the positive electrode comprises as electrochemically active material, considered when the electrochemical cell is in a discharged state, a product having as overall formula Li p (Ni x Mn y Co z M m Al n A a )O 2 ⁇ b , whereby M signifies one or more elements from the group Mg, Ti, Cr, V and Fe, whereby A signifies one or more elements from the group F, C, Cl, S, Zr, Ba, Y, Ca, B, Sn, Sb, Na and Zn, whereby 0.9 ⁇ (x+y+z+m+n+a) ⁇ 1.1, whereby b ⁇ 0.02 whereby 0.9 ⁇ p ⁇ 1.1 whereby 0.30 ⁇ x ⁇ 0.95 whereby (y+z) ⁇ 0.09 whereby 0 ⁇ m ⁇ 0.05 whereby 0 ⁇ a ⁇ 0.05, whereby 0 ⁇ n ⁇ 0.15, whereby the negative electrode comprises
- Si in its metallic, zerovalent state and the symbol Si is used to refer to the element Si irrespective of its oxidation state.
- the total amount of Si referred to above therefore means the total amount of the element Si, irrespective of its oxidation state.
- An electrochemical cell according to the invention combines a high energy density with a good cycle life, better than can be achieved with graphite based negative electrodes and any positive electrode, and better than can be achieved with silicon based negative electrodes in combination with LCO or NMC with a high cobalt content.
- such composite particles will have a strongly reduced tendency for formation of undesirable SEI compared to traditional composite particles with silicon-based domains, and therefore will have a better cycle performance and will be more apt to be used with high currents.
- the most likely explanations considered by the inventors are that with a high nickel content in the positive electrode the average potential of the positive electrode is lower.
- the potential reached by the negative electrode, particularly at the end of the discharge, may therefore be different leading to a different SEI behaviour.
- the high nickel content positive electrode materials may absorb protons from water contamination, which could otherwise react with F from the electrolyte to form HF, which will dissolve silicon and also form LiF, thereby consuming lithium from the battery so that it is not available anymore, making the consumption of protons by the high nickel positive electrode material beneficial for the cell.
- the matrix material is a thermally decomposed carbon-containing precursor.
- the matrix material is carbon and is the thermal decomposition product of pitch.
- Free silicon-based domains are defined as those silicon-based domains that are not or not completely shielded by the matrix material and are therefore freely accessible from outside the composite particle.
- a silicon-based domain is meant a cluster of mainly silicon having a discrete boundary with the matrix material.
- the silicon content in such a silicon-based domain is usually 80 weight % or more, and preferably 90 weight % or more.
- such a silicon-based domain can be either a cluster of mainly silicon atoms in a matrix made from different material or a discrete silicon particle.
- a plurality of such silicon particles is a silicon powder.
- the composite particles are then, in other words, composite particles in which a separately produced silicon nano powder is agglomerated with separately produced matrix material.
- the silicon-based domains are formed by the actual discrete silicon particles from the silicon nano powder.
- the silicon-based domains may have a thin surface layer of silicon oxide.
- the silicon-based domains have a weight based size distribution with a d 50 of 200 nm or less and a d 90 of 1000 nm or less, and preferably have a weight based size distribution with a d 50 of 100 nm or less and a d 90 of 1000 nm or less:
- the ratio d 90 /d 50 is lower than 10, and more preferably lower than 7.
- the d 50 value is defined as the size of a silicon-based domain corresponding to 50 weight % cumulative undersize domain size distribution. In other words, if for example the silicon-based domain size d 50 is 93 nm, 50% of the total weight of domains in the tested sample are smaller than 93 nm.
- Analogously d 90 is the domain size compared to which 90% of the total weight of domains is smaller.
- the silicon-based domains are or were individual loose particles
- size distribution may be simply determined by laser diffraction of these particles.
- particular care has to be taken to de-agglomerate agglomerates in order to reliably determine the particle size.
- Aggregates of silicon-based domains may be formed during their synthesis.
- an aggregate is to be understood as a group of domains which are coalesced together in a structure with such an intergrowth degree that said structure can be divided into the individual domains only partially, if at all.
- the degree of intergrowth of the aggregates can be influenced by the parameters of the synthesis process of forming said domains which may, for example during their formation, coalesce and grow subsequently together to form the aggregates.
- a characteristic of an aggregate may be that when attempting to divide it into individual constituent domains, destruction of some or all of the domains will occur.
- domains in accordance with the present invention also includes aggregates of domains which are fused together so that they may not be separated without risk of destruction of the domains.
- the domains may also agglomerate due to Van der Waals forces and other electromagnetic forces acting between them to form agglomerates.
- agglomerates are understood in the context of this invention as meaning only a loose association of domains which can readily disintegrate into the constituent domains and are not considered as domains in their own right.
- such a size distribution may be determined optically from SEM and/or TEM images by measuring at least 200 silicon-based domains. This method is appropriate if the silicon-based domains are present in a matrix from which they cannot be separated, but may also be used for a silicon based powder. It should be noted that by domain is meant the smallest discrete domain that can be determined optically from SEM or TEM images. The size of a silicon based domain is then determined as the largest measurable line distance between two points on the periphery of the domain.
- Such an optical method will give a number-based domain size distribution, which can be readily converted to a weight based size distribution via well-known mathematical equations.
- the silicon-based domains are silicon-based particles, meaning that they were, before forming the composite particles, individually identifiable particles that existed separately from the matrix material, since they were not formed together with the matrix, and are preferably free from other elements than Si and O, and the matrix material is carbon, preferably thermally decomposed pitch.
- Such an electrochemical cell in addition to the abovementioned advantages, additionally has a high first cycle efficiency, in other words a low first cycle irreversibility. This means that the first cycle irreversibility of both electrodes are in a similar range and low. If the first cycle irreversibility of one of the electrodes is much higher than the other, an excess of the active material in this electrode needs to be used which will lead to a lower energy density of the cell
- the composite particles also contain graphite, whereby the graphite is not embedded in the matrix material. This ensures that no matrix material needs to be used to embed the graphite which can make up a significant proportion of the composite particles, and that consequently the volumetric silicon loading of the composite particles, and therefore the volumetric energy density of the electrochemical cell, is improved.
- This advantage is analogously present in case z ⁇ 0.35 and preferably z ⁇ 0.22
- n 0.02.
- Such a material has a high nickel content and also a significant aluminium content, and also gives an excellent electrochemical cell when combined with a negative electrode material as described above.
- the percentage of free silicon-based domains is lower than 3 weight %, and preferably lower than 2 weight %, and more preferably lower than 1 weight % of the total amount of Si in metallic or oxidised state in the composite powder.
- the percentage of free silicon-based domains may be determined by placing a sample of the composite particles in an alkaline solution for a specified time, determining the volume of hydrogen that has evolved after the specified time, calculating the amount of silicon needed for evolving this amount of hydrogen based on a production of two moles of hydrogen for every mole of silicon reacted and dividing this by the total amount of Si in metallic or oxidised state present in the sample.
- the specified time is optimally the time that is needed to fully complete a reaction of nano silicon powder which is not part of a composite with hydroxide ions of the alkaline solution, but not longer. This will of course depend on the temperature chosen and the concentration of the alkaline solution. By choosing these conditions, all free silicon is measured, but fully embedded silicon is not measured because it is shielded by the matrix material. An incorrect measurement of embedded silicon as free silicon might happen if a longer period or more severe conditions are chosen, due to diffusion/penetration of the alkaline solution through the matrix.
- the ratio between the average size of the composite powder and the d 50 of the silicon-based domains is 10 or more, preferably 20 or more and more preferably 40 or more.
- the silicon-based domains are usually substantially spherical, they may have any shape, such as whiskers, rods, plates, fibers and needles, etc.
- the composite particles contain between 2 weight % and 35 weight % of Si, and in a narrower embodiment the composite particles contain between 8 weight % and 25 weight % of Si.
- a reference test containing only the KOH solution was also performed at same temperature.
- the percentage of free silicon-based domains was defined as the ratio of the amount of reacted silicon and the total amount of Si in the sample.
- the oxygen contents of the products in the examples and the counterexamples were determined by the following method, using a Leco TC600 oxygen-nitrogen analyzer.
- a sample of the product to be analyzed was put in a closed tin capsule that was put itself in a nickel basket.
- the basket was put in a graphite crucible and heated under helium as carrier gas to above 2000° C.
- the sample thereby melts and oxygen reacts with the graphite from the crucible to CO or CO 2 gas. These gases are guided into an infrared measuring cell. The observed signal is recalculated to an oxygen content.
- Particle size distributions were determined, for the silicon powder used for materials P and Q, defined later, by the following method.
- the size distributions were determined on a Malvern Mastersizer 2000, using ultrasound during the measurement, using a refractive index for Si of 3.5 and an absorption coefficient of 0.1 and ensuring that the detection threshold was between 5 and 15%.
- Particle size distributions for courser powders than in the immediately preceding section were determined by an analogous dry method on the same equipment.
- the following measurement conditions were selected: compressed range; active beam length 2.4 mm; measurement range: 300 RF; 0.01 to 900 ⁇ m.
- the sample preparation and measurement were carried out in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.
- a 2.4 wt % Na-CMC solution is prepared and dissolved overnight. Then, TIMCAL Carbon Super P, a conductive carbon is added to this solution and stirred for 20 minutes using a high-shear mixer.
- a mixture of graphite and the negative electrode active material is made. The ratio is calculated to obtain a theoretical negative electrode reversible capacity of 500 mAh/g dry material.
- the mixture containing the negative electrode active material is added and the slurry is stirred again using a high-shear mixer during 30 minutes.
- the slurry is prepared using 90 wt % of the mixture containing the negative electrode active material, 4 wt % of Na-CMC and 6 wt % of the conductive carbon.
- Negative electrodes were then prepared by coating the resulting slurry on a copper foil, at a loading of 6.25 mg dry material/cm 2 and then dried at 70° C. for 2 hours. The foil was coated on both sides and calendared.
- Positive electrodes are prepared in a similar way as the negative electrode, except using with PVDF dissolved in NMP based binder (PVDF) instead of Na-CMC in water and using a 15 ⁇ m thickness aluminium foil current collector instead of copper.
- PVDF NMP based binder
- the loading of active materials on the negative electrode and on the positive electrode is calculated to obtain a capacity ratio of 1.1.
- Pouch type cells of 650 mAh were prepared, using a positive electrode having a width of 43 mm and a length of 450 mm.
- An aluminum plate serving as a positive electrode current collector tab was arc-welded to an end portion of the positive electrode.
- a sheet of the positive electrode, a sheet of the negative electrode, and a sheet of separator made of a 20 ⁇ m-thick microporous polymer film (Celgard® 2320) were spirally wound into a spirally-wound electrode assembly.
- the wound electrode assembly and the electrolyte were then put in an aluminum laminated pouch in an air-dry room, so that a flat pouch-type lithium battery was prepared having a design capacity of 650 mAh when charged to 4.20 V.
- LiPF6 1 M in a mixture of 10% fluoro-ethyl carbonate and 2% vinylene carbonate in a 50/50 mixture of ethylene carbonate and Diethyl carbonate was used as electrolyte.
- the electrolyte solution was allowed to impregnate for 8 hrs at room temperature.
- the battery was pre-charged at 15% of its theoretical capacity and aged 1 day, at room temperature. The battery was then degassed and the aluminum pouch was sealed.
- the lithium full cell batteries are charged and discharged several times under the following conditions, at 25° C., to determine their charge-discharge cycle performance:
- the retained capacity at the n th cycle is calculated as the ratio of the discharge capacity obtained at cycle n to cycle 1.
- a mixed Ni—Co—Mn sulphate with a total metal concentration of 2 M is fed continuously into a continuous stirring tank reactor (CSTR).
- CSTR continuous stirring tank reactor
- a 10 M NaOH solution and a 10 M ammonia solution were simultaneously fed into the CSTR.
- the temperature of the reactor was maintained at 60° C., by a heating jacket.
- the flow rates of these solutions were controlled by mass flow meters to give a residence time of 6 hours, with almost no excess of NaOH solution and an ammonia concentration of 10-15 g/L. Under such precipitation conditions, a pH range of 10.5-11.5 was established.
- the mixed hydroxide precursors were collected from an overflow of the CSTR.
- the obtained precursor slurry was filtered and washed with deionized water. After drying in air at 150° C. for 24 hours, dry mixed hydroxide precursors were obtained.
- the mixtures were then heated at 950° C. in an air atmosphere for 20 hrs. After heating, the obtained products were pulverized and sieved to obtain products A, B and C having a d50 particle size of circa 10 ⁇ m.
- Product D was prepared analogously, except for the following features
- Lithium mixed metal oxide powders were thus obtained, designated as materials A, B, C and D.
- the relative Ni, Mn, Co, Al ratios were measured and confirmed to be the same as those in the mixed metal sulphate solutions.
- the Li/(Ni+Mn+Co+Al) ratio was measured and confirmed to be between 0.99 and 1.01 for all materials.
- the slight difference between the Li/(Ni+Mn+Co+Al) ratio during manufacture and in the final product is due to some loss of Li during the heat treatment step.
- Three negative electrode active materials were used, designated materials P, Q, and R.
- Material P was prepared as follows:
- a nano silicon powder was first prepared as follows:
- a micron-sized silicon powder was provided as precursor.
- a 60 kW radio frequency (RF) inductively coupled plasma (ICP) was applied, using an argon plasma.
- the precursor was injected in the plasma at a rate of 220 g/h, resulting in a prevalent (i.e. in the reaction zone) temperature above 2000K.
- the precursor became totally vaporized followed by a nucleation into nano silicon powder.
- An argon flow was used as quench gas immediately downstream of the reaction zone in order to lower the temperature of the gas below 1600K. In this way the metal nuclei were formed.
- a passivation step was performed at a temperature of 100° C. during 5 minutes by adding 100 l/h of a N 2 /O 2 mixture containing 0.15 mole % oxygen.
- the argon gas flow rate for both the plasma and for the quench gas was adjusted to obtain nano silicon powder having particles with a d 50 of 80 nm and a d 90 of 521 nm.
- 2.5 Nm 3 /h Ar was used for the plasma and 10 Nm 3 /h Ar was used as quench gas.
- a blend was then made of 11.5 g of the mentioned nano silicon powder and 24 g petroleum based pitch powder. This was heated to 450° C. under N 2 , so that the pitch melted, and, after a waiting period of 60 minutes, mixed for 30 minutes by means of a dispersion disk.
- a thermal after treatment was given to the powder as follows: the powder was put in a quartz crucible in a tube furnace, heated up at a heating rate of 3° C./min to 1000° C. and kept at such temperature for two hours and then cooled. All this was performed under argon atmosphere.
- the fired product was pulverized to form a composite powder and sieved on a 400 mesh sieve.
- the resulting material is designated material P
- Material Q was prepared as follows:
- nano silicon powder as used for material P was used.
- a blend was made of 2.58 g of this nano silicon powder and 5.42 g pitch and 7.1 g graphite, and was mixed for 3 hrs on a roller bench, after which the obtained mixture was passed through a mill to de-agglomerate it.
- the total Si content of materials P and Q was measured as 20%+/ ⁇ 0.5% by chemical analysis.
- Material P had a d50 of 14 ⁇ m and a d90 of 27 ⁇ m.
- Material Q had a d50 of 17 ⁇ m and a d90 of 35 ⁇ m.
- Material R was prepared as follows:
- TEOS tetraethylorthosilicate
- PVP polyvinylpyrrolidone
- the solution was transferred to a 200 ml autoclave and hydrothermally treated at 130° C. for 1 h. After cooling down to room temperature, the product inside the autoclave was transferred into a flask, and then a sucrose solution of 3.287 g sucrose in 15 ml water was introduced into it under stirring. The mixed solution was dried at 90° C. in a rotary evaporator under reflux condition.
- the obtained viscous slurry was coked at 250° C. for 10 h in an oven and then calcined at 800° C. for 1 h in 5% H 2 /Ar atmosphere to produce SiO x /C composite powders.
- the powder consisted of many near-spherical particles with a size ca. 1 ⁇ m and a certain amount of aggregated large particles,
- the oxygen content in the obtained SiO x /C composite powder was 17 wt %.
- the silicon content was 37 wt % and the carbon content was 45 wt %. From this it can be calculated that the SiO x had an x-value of circa 0.8.
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Lip(NixMnyCozMmAlnAa)O2±b,
whereby M signifies one or more elements from the group Mg, Ti, Cr, V and Fe, whereby A signifies one or more elements from the group F, C, Cl, S, Zr, Ba, Y, Ca, B, Sn, Sb, Na and Zn,
whereby 0.9<(x+y+z+m+n+a)<1.1,
whereby b<0.02
whereby 0.9<p<1.1
whereby 0.30<x<0.95
whereby (y+z)≥0.09
whereby 0≤m≤0.05
whereby 0≤a≤0.05,
whereby 0≤n≤0.15,
whereby the negative electrode comprises, as electrochemically active material, composite particles, whereby the composite particles comprise silicon-based domains in a matrix material, whereby the individual silicon-based domains are either free silicon-based domains that are not or not completely embedded in the matrix or are fully embedded silicon-based domains that are completely surrounded by the matrix material, whereby the percentage of free silicon-based domains is lower than or equal to 4 weight % of the total amount of Si in the composite particles.
Si+KOH+5H2O→KH7SiO6+2H2
Si+2KOH+2H2O→K2H2SiO4+2H2
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- Negative electrode. A nickel plate serving as a negative electrode current collector tab was arc-welded to an end portion of the negative electrode.
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- Charge is performed in CC mode under 1 C rate up to 4.2V, then CV mode until C/20 is reached,
- The cell is then set to rest for 10 min,
- Discharge is done in CC mode at 1 C rate down to 2.7V,
- The cell is then set to rest for 10 min,
- The charge-discharge cycles proceed until the battery reaches 80% retained capacity. Every 25 cycles, the discharge is done at 0.2 C rate in CC mode down to 2.7 V.
TABLE 1 | |||
Relative | Relative | Relative | |
Hydroxide | molar Ni | molar Mn | molar Co |
for material: | concentration | concentration | concentration |
A | 80 | 10 | 10 |
B | 60 | 20 | 20 |
C | 34 | 33 | 33 |
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- a mixed Ni—Co—Al solution was used with a molar ratio Ni:Co:Al=80:15:5;
- a pH range of 10.0-11.0 was established in the CSTR;
- drying of the mixed hydroxide took place at 100° C. in an inert atmosphere
- LiOH was used as lithium source instead of Li2CO3
- heat treatment was at 750° C. in pure oxygen.
TABLE 2 | ||
Material | Free silicon (%) | Oxygen (%) |
P | <0.3 | 0.5 |
Q | 4.2 | 0.9 |
R | 6 | 28 |
TABLE 3 | |||||
Positive | Negative | ||||
electrode | electrode | Cycle | Cycle | First | |
Battery | active | active | life | life | cycle |
number | material | material | 1 C | C/5 | irreversibility |
1 | A | P | 257 | 290 | 19% |
2 | B | P | 207 | 240 | 17% |
3 | C | P | 180 | 180 | 16% |
4 | D | P | 260 | 285 | 16.5% |
5 | E | P | 140 | 160 | 18% |
6 | E | Q | 70 | 100 | 20% |
7 | B | Q | 72 | 95 | 20% |
8 | D | Q | 75 | 105 | 19% |
9 | E | R | 169 | 180 | 28% |
10 | D | R | 250 | 275 | 27% |
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